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Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges PDF

320 Pages·2010·0.2467 MB·other
by  PittsByron
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<p><i>It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast </i>60 Minutes<i>. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."</i> </p><p><br><i>...If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Pitts, your son cannot read."</i> </p><p><br>In <i>Step Out on Nothing</i>, Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstacles to achieve enormous success in life. Throughout Byron's difficult youth&#8212;his parents separated when he was twelve and his mother worked two jobs to make ends meet&#8212;he suffered from a debilitating stutter. But Byron was keeping an even more embarrassing secret: He was also functionally illiterate. For a kid from inner-city Baltimore, it was a recipe for failure.</p><p><br>Pitts turned struggle into strength and overcame both...</br></br></br></p>
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